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Chalk it up to my being a nurse, but when I hear Gerda (if pronounced with a hard "G", like I'm assuming), then all I see is GERD = gastroesophageal reflux disease. lol

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~Heather~

Gerda is a unusual, but I like it. I've only heard of two people w/ it: Charlize Theron's mother and an author (sorry, no details on her). This is a name that I might use for an animal, but never for a human. I also like Gerd.

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~Andrew~

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"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's to dark to read."
~Groucho Marx~

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"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."
~Lewis Carroll~

I *love* it (only like Ylva says, pronounced YAIRR-da) because it reminds me of the Snow Queen which was my favourite story when I was little.
It's only when people pronounce it gur-dah that I think it's ugly.

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Alice

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I have a friend named Gerda, she's German, and pronounces it sort of-"Gair-da". Since she's the only one I've ever met, and I like her, s I like the name well enough.

Gerda is pronounced as YAIRR-da

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Since the G is before a soft vowel, it is pronounced with a J-sound. And J is pronound as Y in Scandinavian languages.

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To me, Gerda is an "old lady" name. But it may get popular in Sweden again, like other old names as Elsa and Greta. But outside Scandinavia, I fear the pronounciation would be butchered.

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"You sought a flower and found a fruit. You sought a spring and found a sea. You sought a woman and found a soul. You are disappointed."
"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)

I like Kai but Gerda is nmsaa. I prefer Greta, but it's still nms.

I think it's adorable. It has a lot of "old world charm."

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Mum to Hayley Anne. :)

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I remeber it from The Snow Queen too, I prefer Gerta or Gertie though. I like Kai but prefer Kye or Khye.

I rather like it, because of a book I had as a kid called "Gerda lives in Norway", about a girl named Gerda and her friend Helga. I'm never quite sure how to pronounce it though. JER-da doesn't sound right, and GER-da reminds me of girders, a type of iron support used in buildings. But still, I like it!

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♦ Chrisell ♦

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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.